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Abstract

I am not a lawyer although I think my father secretly always hoped that I would be one. He would have been glad to see me at this session, but he would have wondered what on earth I had to say to a group of distinguished law professors. The language of the workshop description talks about the need for new thinking in legal education. It talks about the lawyer of the twenty-first century and about how to educate him or her. It talks about bridging the chasm between the classroom and the "real world" -although I notice it carefully avoids saying what that real world really is. Where does the interest in "new thinking in legal education" come from? What I am going to try to do first is to give you some sense of the context, as I understand it, within which the concern for new thinking in education arises. It will be a context that encompasses the professions and professional education generally. I'll try to make some connections from this broad context to what I understand of the law and legal education. You can judge for yourselves how well you think I have made those connections, and, I suspect, you will be able to draw other connections that I have not seen.

Publication Title

Clinical Law Review

Volume

2

Issue

1

First Page

231

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